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Catherine Opie's photographs have appeared in series. At first there were portraits of gender-crossers and sadomasochists, then the facades of houses in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, then the freeways of Los Angeles.

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At Incognito 10, the 10th-anniversary benefit of the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s benefit sale, small works whose authorship is kept secret — many made by stars in the field — sell for an unheard-of price.

Days after John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger resigned from the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Ed Ruscha submitted his own resignation letter, in which he expressed similar concerns about the museum's...

Two additional artists have resigned from the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, only a few days after the resignation of the artist John Baldessari raised new questions about the museum's direction. In a joint letter sent to...

July 17, 2012, Tuesday

Two additional artists -- Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie -- have resigned from the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, only a few days after the resignation of the artist John Baldessari raised new questions about the museum's...

March 30, 2012, Friday

CLIFF MAY (1908-1989) designed more than 1,000 ranch houses in the 1940s and '50s, helping define what we now think of as the California living dream. The photographer Catherine Opie was asked to photograph two May houses as they look today for...